Do you know how much it costs to shoot at those places? I'm in Statesville, NC, not far from W-S, but the only two places I know of charge several hundred dollars for a membership fee. No membership, no shooting.

The Rowan county gun club is really nice. That is the club my dad is a member of and I have been there many many times. i go everytime I go on leave. They have a rifle range out to 200 yds I thinkit is, 5 or 6 individual pistol pits and they also have many lanes for shooting skeet to, they are the real nice skeet houses one high and one low, and there are like 12 or 13 dofferent positions to shoot from on the corse. They also have sporting clays as well. WE used to go to the FOP but it was lame. You will be very pleased with the rowan county gun club. It is kinda expensive at first but well worth it. That is right up the road from where my parents live and near my hometown.

Does the FOP have a rifle range and a pistol range? Is it open to non-LEOs? The $600 membership fee at Rowan is only worth it if you can afford it, which I can't, so Rowan is simply not even an option for me.

There's a place out in East Bend, near the Forsyth Co. line called Sportsmans Paradise. I'm pretty sure they have an outdoor range. They are located on Hwy 67, Between East Bend and the county line. I've never been there, I have the room to shoot at home, and it's free!

No Shooters Paradise is on Dinkins Bottom Road off of Hwy 421. The place is closed now but some new owners are working to open it up. When it is done it should have a indoor and outdoor range as well as a gun store.

There is a sporing clays place off of Rockford Rd but I don't know of a range in the East Bend area. At least I haven't seen one and I know every bump on 67 between Winston and Jonesville, at least I though I did.

I will be relocating near Wilkesboro soon from Colorado. Are any of these ranges within say 45 minutes (or preferably less even) of Wilkesboro? Any open to the public and allow pay-per-use or are they all membership only?

I'm going to be somewhere right near Miller's Creek when I get there (staying with family) and of course where I will actually settle is totally unknown. Would certainly like to stay in that area because of family but if the NC state legislature makes me too nervous (I hear a bunch of anti-gun idiots) I may well even settle in Tennessee, along with my income producing business and tax dollars. I already left California for that very reason and I am not going back to that same crap with just a new name. I really hope that does not happen of course. Really like NC otherwise.

Adolph...check out Calibers in Greensboro. Depending on where you are in Winston-Salem, its about 15-20 minutes from you. Its on the western side of Greensboro, right near the airport. I can give you directions if you're interested. Im a member, and though its only indoor handgun and rifle shooting at 25 yards, I think its a great place, and they have great prices, and the staff is very friendly. They were also named the "Best Shooting Range" in the Summer 2004 issue of Unlimited Magazine

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